When is the shearing season?

The shearing time is usually from the end of May to the beginning of June. After the cold winter, wool fibers will become very long. At the turn of spring and summer, herders will harvest wool. At this time, if they don't shear the wool, the sheep will change their own wool (long and thin winter wool will be replaced by short and thick summer wool). Note that the signal that stimulates sheep to molt is light time rather than temperature change.

What comes out of sheep is called wool, which is called sheep hair in the industry. Even if sheep's hair is fine, we call it wool professionally, not cashmere, but of course it can also be called fine wool.

Only cashmere from goats is called cashmere, which means cashmere and cashmere. Cashmere is a thin layer of fine hair that grows on the outer cortex of goats and covers the roots of goat coarse hair. It grows in cold winter, resists the cold, falls off as soon as it is warm in spring, and naturally adapts to the climate. It is a rare special animal fiber.

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Cashmere difference

1, the scale arrangement of wool is denser and thicker than cashmere, and its shrinkage rate is greater than cashmere. Cashmere fiber scales are small and smooth, with an air layer in the middle, so it is light in weight and smooth to the touch.

2. The curl of wool is smaller than that of cashmere, and the curl number, curl rate and curl recovery rate of cashmere fiber are larger, which is suitable for processing into knitted fabrics with full hand, good softness and elasticity, comfortable and natural wearing, and has good reduction characteristics, especially in the aspects of no shrinkage after washing and good shape retention.

Cashmere is 1.5 ~ 2 times of wool because of its high natural curl, compact arrangement, good cohesion during spinning and weaving, and good warmth retention.